Home Business Tips - Working With Others
One of the things that puzzles me about many home business owners just starting out is that they think that they have to do everything themselves.
When was the last time you went into a supermarket and saw only one person working there? You have the cashiers, the deli people, the stock people and every once in a while, you even see the boss.
One thing you never see is one guy running between the cash register and the deli counter.
Well, running your own business shouldn't be like that either.
The question is, what do you get others to do? To answer that, you need to take a look at your business.
Each one is going to be different.
For example, if you decide that you're going to base your business off of writing articles to market your sites and you're not much of a writer, you might want to consider hiring people to do the writing for you.
There are two reasons for this.
The first is, not being a writer yourself, you want the job done right.
The second is simply, you can get more writing done hiring people than trying to do it all yourself.
What about your website itself? Do you know anything about web design? Even if you do, do you really want to spend all that time designing a site? Your time could be better spent actually working on a plan for your business.
By hiring somebody to create the site for you, we're talking about countless hours of time that you don't have to spend yourself on something that can probably be done better by somebody else.
But what if that's your business...
designing websites? Do you really want to design each site yourself? Couldn't you design a lot more sites if you had a staff of web designers.
Even if you had to pay them half of what you charged for the site, the number of sites you could crank out in a day would more than make up for the money spent on employees.
Ultimately, you need to look at your business and see where you can maybe save some time getting others to do the work for you.
Otherwise, you're going to find that your business isn't going to grow beyond a certain point, which is fine if a small business is all you want.
But if you want to expand, it's not going to happen with you running between the cash register and the deli counter.
To YOUR Success, Steven Wagenheim
When was the last time you went into a supermarket and saw only one person working there? You have the cashiers, the deli people, the stock people and every once in a while, you even see the boss.
One thing you never see is one guy running between the cash register and the deli counter.
Well, running your own business shouldn't be like that either.
The question is, what do you get others to do? To answer that, you need to take a look at your business.
Each one is going to be different.
For example, if you decide that you're going to base your business off of writing articles to market your sites and you're not much of a writer, you might want to consider hiring people to do the writing for you.
There are two reasons for this.
The first is, not being a writer yourself, you want the job done right.
The second is simply, you can get more writing done hiring people than trying to do it all yourself.
What about your website itself? Do you know anything about web design? Even if you do, do you really want to spend all that time designing a site? Your time could be better spent actually working on a plan for your business.
By hiring somebody to create the site for you, we're talking about countless hours of time that you don't have to spend yourself on something that can probably be done better by somebody else.
But what if that's your business...
designing websites? Do you really want to design each site yourself? Couldn't you design a lot more sites if you had a staff of web designers.
Even if you had to pay them half of what you charged for the site, the number of sites you could crank out in a day would more than make up for the money spent on employees.
Ultimately, you need to look at your business and see where you can maybe save some time getting others to do the work for you.
Otherwise, you're going to find that your business isn't going to grow beyond a certain point, which is fine if a small business is all you want.
But if you want to expand, it's not going to happen with you running between the cash register and the deli counter.
To YOUR Success, Steven Wagenheim
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